Stress Among Adolescents of Government Intermediate Schools

Stress is an appraisal of one's resources to cope up with the challenging situations and places a limit on one's capacity to face the situation efficiently. The stressful condition occurs when demands exceed the available resources. The same happens during the phase of adolescence. The adolescents face the turbulence of growing up stresses along with pressures of performance, cut throat competition, experiencing frustrations and conflicts of everyday life in relational world. For adolescents who are living in difficult circumstances, the level of stress only escalates to harmful extent having an adverse effect on their physical as well as mental health. The present study is an attempt to explore the stress level among adolescents of rural and urban area of Bakshi-ka-talab, Nishatganj, and Chowk area of Lucknow. The total sample was of 400 adolescents of government schools in age range 14 to 18 years, equally divided into rural and urban school's students. Anxiety Depression Stress Scale (Bhatnagar et al., 2011) was administered on them. The present research paper addresses the scores on stress scale only. The CR value has been calculated to find out locale (rural & urban) and gender difference. The findings indicated that rural adolescents are high on stress level as well as female adolescents were found to be stressed as compared to their male counterparts irrespective of area.